To: Maine Regional School Unit, School Board & Dr Kathryn Hawes

Superintendent of Schools
177 Alewive Road
Kennebunk, ME 04043

Dr. Hawes:

I, am greatly appalled that you would publicly speak on a former teacher of yours,
and disclose private information from her personnel file.

Jill Lamontagne was cleared by the court system of any and all wrong doing.

The only unprofessional behavior is yours. I hold an MSE in educational

administration, and I have experience and hold certification for K-12 instruction. I
hold other graduate degrees and certifications as well.

From my training, internships, and other experience in school systems, your

behavior is highly unprofessional.

How do you have the tenacity to publicly release a statement on an employee? Are
they not entitled to privacy under your own policies and our 4th Amendment?

You, Ma’am, clearly do not know how to be professional or represent the school as
such. Everyone is entitled to due process, and the system proved that indeed your
school was wrong.

Do you have any idea or concern for the emotional toll this puts on an educator?
Many educators are wrongly accused of many things, but you helped the situation
with your misinformed and misdirected over vigilance.

Would you have been happy if Mrs. Lamontagne had committed suicide? Would that
have pleased you? Your school system and its false accusations tore this woman’s
life upside down and ripped her family apart from her during this whole process.

You owe it to your employees to ensure their rights as personnel are upheld, and
you do not ever get the right to demean anyone the way you have.

You, Dr. Hawes, are a disgrace to the profession and you lack any sense of what is
just, what is right, and what is honorable.

In America, Dr. Hawes, we live under the constitution, which prevailed in the case of
Mrs. Lamontagne. I view you as being wholly anti-American in this regard.

We do not live under misguided, ill conceived notions that are not founded in fact or
reality.
In fact, students can be less than truthful, and they can outright lie. This was clearly
the case for Mrs. Lamontagne, but again, you greeted the resounding not guilty
verdict by blasting this skilled teacher and disclosing her private personnel matters
to the public at large.

Does it make you feel better and powerful to be able to do this? I would thoroughly
enjoy reviewing your personnel file.

it seems that you have established a precedent and policy in your district where any
and all personnel files and matters therein can be disclosed to the public at large.

I will summarily be submitting my FOIA request to get things started. Reviewing

documents is a specialty I do enjoy as is time in federal court rooms.

You again, Ma’am, victimized a teacher, just as bad, if not as bad as her student, not
once, but twice, even after she was found innocent and cleared of every single
trumped up charge that had no merit whatsoever.

You, your school, and your school board failed this teacher. You failed her, because
you refuse to want to know the facts. You revel in sticking your hand in the sand.

You pushed your own narrative clearly after she was exonerated, because you are a
poor and sorry excuse for a human being and for an American.

If you had any decency whatsoever, you would offer a public apology and retraction
to Mrs. Lamontagne. However, knowing the disconnected and self-absorbed
individual you are, I have serious doubts of this happening.

Your statements and attacks on her, simply speak for themselves as to the type of
chaotic atmosphere you sow for the educators, the life blood, in your school district.

She was a caring teacher doing her job and doing work that goes unnoticed every
day by folks like you who sit in their ivory towers, disconnected from the youth.

Dr. Hawes, you simply are a prime example of why there is a need for direct
oversight from the outside. You, Dr. Hawes, need to be held to the policies of the
school you represent, you are not above them. An investigation should be started to
examine your conduct and disclosure of private personnel matters.

There should always be someone looking in from the outside. In this case sadly, you
personally used and abused your power to inflict such great emotional harm on Mrs.
Lagmontagne, and you continue to do so without missing a beat.

You set your path on the bricks you lay and all know the path you take,